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I feel like since we've joined the ACC I actually get far fewer cuse games. Unless I'm missing the channel today, there was no Cuse/BC (I realize this is a game not a sole in the ACC cares about, but still ...) but I did have a choice of UNC/Pitt or any one of five women's games. Not to be a 1950's style sexist ogre, but I'm not watching women's hoops.

So, anyway, I feel like outside of ESPN games I've only gotten a couple on the ACC Network. Why am I not seeing basically every single game in the ACC. I'm in the viewing area, but I only get one choice? Is that really how it works?

Apologies if this is a stupid question, I just don't follow these things much, other than to know that I am having to stream a ton of games this year.
 
Anytime a game gets farmed out to the "ACC Network", it's up to each local station to choose which game they want to show from the inventory.

Unfortunately, every affiliate in PA and DC chose the Pitt-UNC game over ours.

Last week, our game wasn't shown in Rochester. :noidea:
 
OrangeXtreme said:
Anytime a game gets farmed out to the "ACC Network", it's up to each local station to choose which game they want to show from the inventory.

Unfortunately, every affiliate in PA and DC chose the Pitt-UNC game over ours.

Last week, our game wasn't shown in Rochester. :noidea:
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^^^This^^^ The ACC Network games have been like this forever. In the DC area we used to get shafted because the stations would take the Twerps over our game all the time in a split network situation.
 
The ACC Network affiliate that usually shows the Cuse games chose to air the Pitt/UNC game today. Somehow, I can't blame them. I haven't found it to be a problem this year getting telecasts of SU games. The ACC games can usually be found on WDCA and the Raycomm telecasts can usually be found on CSN.
 
CarolinaCuse said:
Yes, accessibility of ESPN3. I watched the game at home in NoVa.
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Yeah, I can stream it but I still don't like watching a game that way. I don't think it's my internet, but maybe. Either way, I'd much rather have it on my cable. Better quality and I can DVR it, which is harder on the streaming games b/c it jumps all over if you try to skip commercials.
 
Fortunately here in the Albany area, WNYT carries the SU games on the ACC network and Time Warner carries most of the pre-season games that don't make it to an ESPN network or ESPN3.
I've fortunately been able to catch all of the SU games either on TV or online this year.
I really keep hoping for the day when you can subscribe to ESPN3 without having to have a cable TV contract.
SU basketball and football games are about the only reason I'm keeping my Time Warner cable TV service.
 
Hoo's That said:
^^^This^^^ The ACC Network games have been like this forever. In the DC area we used to get shafted because the stations would take the Twerps over our game all the time in a split network situation.
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Am I crazy or did the BE used to have several games on in the same day and/or at the same time. Like five women's hoops games today was absolutely infuriating to me. How does that make sense?
 
billsin01 said:
Am I crazy or did the BE used to have several games on in the same day and/or at the same time. Like five women's hoops games today was absolutely infuriating to me. How does that make sense?
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It doesn't.
 
I live in the DC area and I watched the game on DirecTV channel 790.
 
Agreed, even when the game is on ESPN3, it gets blacked out in our area. The only option Ive found is streaming from ACC Network website.
 
I usually get all the games in Orlando but today only 1 city in FL had it on. I don't blame it on the ACC, I just think it was a typical Sunday stinker. A bubble team vs a god awful team and on the awful teams court ... on a Sunday.

If we were in the top 25 I guarantee we would be on cable.
 
billsin01 said:
I feel like since we've joined the ACC I actually get far fewer cuse games. Unless I'm missing the channel today, there was no Cuse/BC (I realize this is a game not a sole in the ACC cares about, but still ...) but I did have a choice of UNC/Pitt or any one of five women's games. Not to be a 1950's style s e xist ogre, but I'm not watching women's hoops.

So, anyway, I feel like outside of ESPN games I've only gotten a couple on the ACC Network. Why am I not seeing basically every single game in the ACC. I'm in the viewing area, but I only get one choice? Is that really how it works?

Apologies if this is a stupid question, I just don't follow these things much, other than to know that I am having to stream a ton of games this year.
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I caught today's game on that ESPN Extra channel on FIOS. Not HD but otherwise ok.

This is I think the first time I watched on that channel, we seem to be on a lot between the ESPNs and the Raycom stuff. But I was outta town for Wake and the first BC game so they may have been relegated, dunno...
 
I watched on espn3 here in Raleigh.

Question: considering relocating back to Syracuse/Utica to be closer with my aging parents. Would it be of benefit to keep my DirecTV in the 919 area code? I would miss out on the local channels/news(zero issue if I'm in Utica, wow it's awful. Not even one Syracuse affiliate in the Mohawk Valley) but yet I could guarantee no blackouts of road games. Pretty sure this is a "thing" and it works. Anyone else with experience?
 
OrangeXtreme said:
Anytime a game gets farmed out to the "ACC Network", it's up to each local station to choose which game they want to show from the inventory.

Unfortunately, every affiliate in PA and DC chose the Pitt-UNC game over ours.

Last week, our game wasn't shown in Rochester. :noidea:
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Can we pin this post? Every single game we get the exact same question/complaint from different locations and this is the answer for all of them.
 
CusefanATL said:
Can we pin this post? Every single game we get the exact same question/complaint from different locations and this is the answer for all of them.
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Fortunately there's only one more ACCNet game this season (NC State), then it's smooth sailing on ESPN / ESPN2 for a while.

At least until the NCAA Tournament, when everyone has to find "truTV" again. :p
 
billsin01 said:
Yeah, I can stream it but I still don't like watching a game that way. I don't think it's my internet, but maybe. Either way, I'd much rather have it on my cable. Better quality and I can DVR it, which is harder on the streaming games b/c it jumps all over if you try to skip commercials.
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I had been connecting my laptop to my TV via HDMI cable and watching games on ESPN3 and the quality was all over the place. Also couldn't figure out the aspect ratio, the picture never used the full screen on the TV.

Someone gave me an Apple TV box and I hooked that up last week. I used it to connect to the ESPN3 feed and watch the BC game and the quality was night and day different from the direct laptop hookup. There was no appreciable difference from the cable broadcast. I'm not sure why there should be a difference, but there was. In one short week I have become an Apple TV convert. The number of games that you can access through the watch ESPN app is huge.
 
In Charlotte area have been able to catch the subbed out Raycom games on DirecTV. The Cuse-VT game was on 792 (local affiliate showed the Wake-Clemson game) and yesterday's game with BC on 790 as, of course, the local affiliate was showing UNC-Pitt. You do need to subscribe to DirecTV's Sports Pack programming.
 
Eric15 said:
Easy to find, "Impractical Jokers" is the funniest show on TV (it's on TruTV).
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It's hysterical. My teenage son recently introduced it to me...find myself in tears practically every time. :)
 
orangecuse said:
It's hysterical. My teenage son recently introduced it to me...find myself in tears practically every time. :)
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I love the show as does my son. My wife on the other hand absolutely refuses to even go in the same room with me when the show is on and says that it is totally moronic and demeaning to those that get pranked (which of course is the reason I like it). I try to tell her not to take it seriously but she just can't appreciate it. Opposites attract I guess!
 
Ive had to stream 3 or 4 acc games on apple tv, quality is no different then if its on tv. Its just annoying, im in central nj and none of the acc network games get picked up. I miss the big east.
 
CusefanATL said:
Can we pin this post? Every single game we get the exact same question/complaint from different locations and this is the answer for all of them.
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I realize this was an annoying post and I get that there are coverage decisions. I think my point was more that I'm just sort of surprised that I'm in the heart of the mid-atlantic in DC and it's Sunday afternoon in Feb (so very little competition for air time) and yet there was one ACC game, a BiG game on CBS and then five women's games. That just seems insane to me. I also am just not really a fan of streaming the game.

Anyway, apologies for re-hashing
 
CorduroyG said:
Ive had to stream 3 or 4 acc games on apple tv, quality is no different then if its on tv. Its just annoying, im in central nj and none of the acc network games get picked up. I miss the big east.
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I don't have apple tv -- maybe that's the key. I desperately miss the big east.
 
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